Rugby Union

France's Ligue Nationale de Rugby has begun a search for head of broadcast rights and content

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a new suite of fan statistics to activate its sponsorship rights for this year’s Six Nations rugby championship.

World Rugby is aiming to launch a global competition for emerging union national teams in 2021, following the collapse last year of its Nations Championship concept

The private companies that own the licences for four Super Rugby teams from New Zealand are seeking compensation from New Zealand Rugby for an expected drop in revenues due to a league format change, according…

England Rugby has agreed a new sponsorship deal naming British luxury brand Bremont as its official timekeeper

Major League Rugby team Austin Herd has been renamed the Austin Gilgronis (the AGs) and will relocate to the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) ahead of the 2020 season as part of an ownership change

The Japan Rugby Rugby Union has outlined plans for a new domestic rugby union league, to launch in autumn 2021

Durban-based Super Rugby franchise the Sharks has renewed its major sponsorship deal with South African telecommunications company Cell C

English Premiership Rugby side Saracens has announced its interim chief executive Edward Griffiths is leaving after less than a month in the role

PPA Business School has been announced as an official supplier of the Supersevens, a new professional rugby sevens championship in France, in a deal brokered by the Lagardère Sports agency.

Bill Beaumont has announced today (Friday) that he will be seeking re-election as chairman of World Rugby at the body’s council meeting in May.

Italian fashion group Fashion Box has moved into rugby union sponsorship after agreeing a four-year deal for its Replay denim brand to back the All Blacks

Groupe Couleur has been appointed as exclusive global rights holder for the official travel programme of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, part of what local organisers in France claim will be an “innovative a…

The 2020 Women’s Six Nations rugby tournament has been unsuccessful in signing a title sponsor.

Rugby Australia has engaged the Media Rights Value organisation to help with negotiations for its next domestic rights contract amid reports that pay-television broadcaster Foxtel may end its long-running…

English Premiership champion Saracens will be relegated from the top division of domestic rugby union at the end of the current 2019-20 season after admitting it will fail to meet salary cap regulations…

Ireland’s competition regulator has cleared CVC’s deal to invest in the Pro14 rugby competition, provided it alerts the competition authority if it goes onto acquire a stake in the Six Nations.

Major League Rugby has gained another commercial boost ahead of its third season by partnering with sports performance technology company Catapult Sports.